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AQUAREHAB is a EU  financed large scale research project (FP7) that is being coordinated by VITO involving a consortium of 19 partners. The project started 1st May 2009 and will last 56 months until 2013.

The project will develop innovative rehabilitation technologies for soil, groundwater and surface water to cope with a number of different priority contaminants (nitrates, pesticides, chlorinated compounds, aromatic compounds, mixed pollutions…) within heavily degraded water systems. Methods will be developed to determine the (long-term) impact of the innovative rehabilitation technologies to reduce pollution to river and groundwater receptors.

The project will promote the uptake of successful technologies for use in river basin management measures. One of the major outcomes of the project will be a generic river basin management tool that assesses the ecological and economical impact of rehabilitation technologies on the water system at both local and regional scales. 

Latest news

AQUAREHAB is organising on 25-26th September 2012 a European Symposium – Remediation Technologies and their Integration in Water Management - in Barcelona, Spain. The symposium is being organised jointly with the FP7 project UPSOIL and PRB/RZ-2012. The purpose is to bring together pioneers and experts from all over the world to exchange information and new experiences. We hope you will attend and submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. More information can be found here .

AQUAREHAB is now into its third year – the regular Newsletters provide an overview of the progress that the project has made. In October 2011 a publication from Innovation International provides an up-to-date overview of the achievements that have been made and the issues at stake. This publication titled Going with the flow, is based on an interview with Dr Leen Bastiaens the AQUAREHAB coordinator.